Warning: This podcast autopsy comprises spoilers about tonight’s Westworld season 4 finale “Que Será, Será”
We’re a protracted, great distance from the park. Keep in mind, the western city from season one? The season 4 finale of HBO’s Westworld wrapped up tonight after a melee between people and hosts and extra questions on who’s alive and who’s within the digital Valley of the Past. On a particular Crew Name tonight we speak with Westworld co-creator Lisa Pleasure to type all of it out.
You may hearken to our dialog right here:
Season 4 was set seven years after season 3’s revolution the place we noticed Maeve (Thandiwe Newton), Caleb (Aaron Paul) and a drained Dolores (Evan Rachel Wooden) take out the humungous, predictive supercomputer Rehoboam. Effectively, there was extra revolution in final Sunday’s episode and in tonight’s with our bodies of people and hosts mendacity about.
Says Joys, “People and hosts, they’re simply going to destroy themselves. Life on Earth as we all know it’s over.”
Host megalomaniac Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) deposited one of many final host pearls we all know, Dolores/Christina’s into the Valley of Past and sealed it up at Hoover dam, similar to Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) suggested. The Valley of the Past is, nicely, like a heaven for hosts. It’s additionally known as the Elegant. Charlotte additionally destroyed her pearl and William/Man In Black’s (Ed Harris). Nonetheless, they didn’t make it to host heaven as we all know it.
What now? “Sentient life on Earth has ended,” says Evan Rachel Wooden’s Dolores/Christina on the finish of tonight’s episode,” however some a part of it is perhaps preserved…in my world.”
“There’s time for one final recreation — a harmful recreation with the very best of stakes. Survival or extinction,” continues Dolores/Christina, “This recreation ends the place it started, in a world like a maze that exams who we’re. That reveals who we’re to grow to be.” And we see she’s again on the Westworld western city park.
Is that this the top of Westworld? Was the abuse of energy by A.I. at all times on a vicious loop? Pleasure tells us tonight her and husband/co-creator Jonathan Nolan haven’t acquired phrase but of a season 5 renewal. Nonetheless, on the onset of the season she advised us that “Jonah (Nolan) and I’ve at all times had an ending in thoughts that we hope to achieve. We’ve got not fairly reached it but.”
Right here’s a recap of the fates of sundry characters tonight:
Dolores/Christina (and Teddy). Teddy helped Christina see the sunshine and notice she was the soul of Dolores. Christina has an epiphany realizing that she’s a “program operating issues behind the scenes.” “Your ideas are actual…and the impact you possibly can have on the world is actual,” says James Marsden’s Teddy. Christina finds the enduring maze emblem from the sequence which jogs her reminiscence. Regarding the world round, Christina says “It was me, I did it. Hale didn’t design it. Some a part of me should have been looking.” It’s why Christina additionally created her roommate Maya (Ariana DeBose); to assist her make sense of her personal self. After Charlotte uploads Dolores’ pearl to Valley of the Past, Teddy will get all glittery, and Christina then wakes up from a dream and see the prairie model of herself. “I’m right here to inform you the reality about what we’re; we’re reflections of the individuals who made us,” Dolores tells Christina. Regardless of Teddy ‘disappearing’ and getting all glittery, Christina/Dolores believes he’s actual “and someplace within the elegant”. The episodes winds down with Dolores strolling out in what appears favored a supped up model of Occasions Sq. which then melts away and rework again into the Westworld western park. “The Valley of the Past is sealed off from the world, and people hosts are secure, and Dolores is secure, nicely, Christina,” Pleasure tells us.
Pleasure additionally duly confirms that Dolores is “within the Valley Past. So, she’s alive by way of her pearl, her sort of CPU has been uploaded into this place the place all the opposite hosts went, and so, what’s alive? Does her bodily being exist? No, and it hasn’t existed all season. She’s been actually in a walled backyard, however now that walled backyard has been despatched to a sort of digital infinity the place presumably she will make no matter world she desires.”
Charlotte Hale (and William) — Are they lifeless? Actually, severely? Severely, there needs to be a drawer of William and Charlotte pearls someplace. A drone host saves Charlotte’s slain physique on the prime of the episode and revives her (she was killed final Sunday). “Make me stronger, go away my scars, I need to bear in mind my previous. Hold my face. After I discover William, I would like him to realize it was me who killed him,” says Charlotte getting rebuilt by the drone hosts. She’s hellbent to get the man, William, who she blames for making “everybody as insane as himself”. She finds an iPad with a message left for her by Bernard. “For those who’re seeing this, it means Maeve and I are lifeless. It received’t be lengthy earlier than each host is lifeless. This isn’t the world you needed, Charlotte, however the world you created, the query is what occurs subsequent?”
In a while on the Hoover Dam the place William and Charlotte confront one another, the Man in Black believes that he has developed, despite the fact that he’s now not the man he was. Charlotte believes the identical, that she has developed, and certainly as he tries to stab her with an enormous knife, she’s actually as sturdy as The Terminator. “You gave hosts free reign to hunt and kill people,” says Williams, “You’re as f***ed up as our creators. I’m going to wipe the slate clear.” “That’s your finish purpose? Extinction?” retorts Hale. As we talked about above, she tracks down William kills him, and deposits Christina/Dolores’ pearl within the elegant/Valley of the Past. She sits subsequent to Hoover dam after the mission, exhales, opens her cranium, takes out her pearl and crushes it. “How do you die as a bunch? However when you do crush your CPU like that; that’s the place the soul of the host resides, so to talk. So, sure, no extra Hale,” Pleasure tells us on Crew Name.
Clementine Pennyfeather (Angela Sarafyan) is lifeless, killed by Caleb’s daughter C (Aurora Perrineau) with a shot to the pinnacle. She needed the situation of the opposite outliers from Caleb and C, who she believed have been going off the grid.
Caleb and C: They make their solution to a ship the place C heads off together with her girlfriend. Nonetheless, Caleb doesn’t need to go. Earlier, Caleb learns from C that his spouse/her mother died of most cancers. “Your father died way back,” Caleb tells her. It’s a teary goodbye.
We discovered that Hale made a number of variations of Caleb this season. So which one did we find yourself with right here? The human one?
Solutions Pleasure, “Right here’s how that expertise works. It was really began within the episode in season two with Mr. Delos, and the place the Man in Black is doing a check, a check for immortality, proper? They’re making an attempt to do that secret immortality venture the place when you completely replicate an individual and put it on this CPU, you possibly can mainly permit that particular person to dwell perpetually. And what they discovered is when combining the thoughts and soul, let’s say, of an individual’s CPU inside a man-made physique, like a physique rejecting an organ donation, it tended to reject that physique, and that’s why it could break down, they usually can sort of stretch the breakdown for longer and longer durations. However finally it’s just like the thoughts is aware of this isn’t actual and it causes itself to malfunction, and so, that’s what Hale was doing with Caleb. She would carry him again repeatedly and watch him degrade, whereas searching for some reality that she believes he withheld from her.”
So what of Maeve, Bernard and Man in Black? Are they lifeless, lifeless, lifeless?
Pleasure teases, “There are methods of conjuring characters again. There are some faces we are going to see once more, however not all of them. Some deaths should be revered.”
